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My group defeated the Dragon Emperor campaign BBEG easily enough, but got slaughtered a few sessions later when they went hunting a dragon. :D

None of the options fit my feelings really. 1. Quality has generally not been good enough, I've bought way too much stuff and thought "meh". There was an especially marked decline from around when Mearls left D&D, although I did like the Essentials Kit which I think postdates him. 2. I'm not...

Well the criticisms seem reasonable. This sort of thing belongs in a review in a magazine, not anywhere that looks like the official stance of the publisher, though.

Judging by the Valkyria Chronicles music video I saw on YouTube, Nazis identify with Gallia the little invaded nation with the Valkyrie super-soldier(s) and see the invading eastern empire guys as the Russians :D Mod Note: Video name removed- no need to publicize songs with Nazi/white...

I'm more of a Free League & Arcane Library guy these days, but it sure is good seeing how far you've come since Slayer's Guide To Female Gamers. :D Re marketing, you should talk to Kelsey Dionne's wife at Arcane Library, they're clearly doing something right... Marketing definitely is a...

"Written on Water" is a metaphor for something that will pass quickly, that no one will remember. So this is a subversion.

Green light is often used as an unnatural symbol of evil, see eg the Loc-Nar in the Heavy Metal movie. 12 is a holy number because it's so divisible, making it evil is a subversion. 13 ofc the reverse.

I have Modiphius'1e Achtung! Cthulu and have played not GM'd it a couple times. It always seemed very scared to let the Nazis be Nazis. No swastikas anywhere; the Nazis summon Cthulu mythos creatures, but you don't ever see them really doing anything horrible. To me it came across as very bland...

This seems like a good question for RPG.Net. :D There's SIGMATA: This Machine Kills Fascists. Not actually read it though.

It's an interesting point, which definitely goes against how I GM. I definitely love my NPCs, and for some reason I seem to be very good at making/developing very attractive romantic interest NPCs that players who are into that sort of thing really go for. I find the female potential love...

I think it's kind of interesting that discussion of OC play rapidly focuses on players & PCs, not the NPCs I was asking about. Shouldn't be a surprise though. :D I guess OC play tends to see NPCs as part of the backdrop to the PCs. Not something I like, but explains some attitudes I've seen.

Thanks, yeah. An important point was that being Warlord Yusan's son, and the implications of that, made Hakeem more awesome, not less. I was definitely a fan of the character.

I got A and B mixed up when I posted, oops. I had been posting about lack of Gamist challenge in OC, but lack of big Narrative stakes is probably a bigger issue. The OC GMs are often very cautious about messing with the PCs, when the players would often very much like the PC to be messed with...

As a player I do definitely prefer OC/NeoTrad GMs to Trad GMs, who I tend to associate with a rigid, linear approach that can result in railroading. I really hated it when a GM said my drunken INT 8 4e berserker dwarf barbarian had to participate in an arcane puzzle skill challenge in the...

I was thinking/talking about (edit) B, but actually edit (A) is probably more relevant to the discussion. I think a lot of OC play tends strongly towards "Cosy Roleplay", I used Kim's game as an example. I think this is actually a pretty strong play mode compared to GMs who are nominally running...

How do you communicate creative agendas effectively in a DnD type OC game where there is little or no mechanical support for this? With Kim I might tease her a bit for all the NPCs being "too nice". But it's very hard to say "I want to fail more", when the rules chassis is so strongly oriented...

I remember a long time ago there was a lot of outrage in the CR fan base about a PC death. This looked like a clash of agendas, Mercer was GMing in a pretty Trad style I think, the sort of thing you'd expect from eg a Paizo Adventure Path GM, where failure is an option if not common. The fans...

The thing about OC play is that everything kinda "Just Works". The PCs try something - they succeed, almost no matter how unlikely. A lot of players like this. As a player I tend to want more challenge. As a GM I often want more challenge, but I do like a lot of things about running games in a...

I think my courtship attempt was asking her to braid my beard in the bath. :D I can't complain about how the NPC was played, she was super sweet and we had done some sort of heroic deed for the orphanage. I do remember my CHA 8 dwarf had already acquired another gf, a female warrior with 2 axes...

Thinking about this, with the most recent case. I definitely didn't see myself as running an OC style campaign. To me it was a Gamist/Sim sandbox where effectively navigating the political goals and the emotions/feelings of your (Mastermind Rogue) wife was just as important as navigating dungeon...